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(No Model.)

O. A. F. ORLOB.

' RULING PEN.

No. 364,282. PatentedJune '7, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTIAN A. F. ORLOB, OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH TERRITORY.

RULlNG -PEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,282, dated June 7, 1887. Application filed October 25, 1886. Serial No. 2 17,1 16. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN A. F. ORLOB, of Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake and Territory of Utah, have invented a new and Improved Ruling-Pen, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved ruling pen specially adapted for ruling a double and a single line simultaneously.

Theinvention consists of two ruling-pens, of which one is capable of making two lines at a time, and the other is a single pen.

The invention also consists of various parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter, and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improvement, and Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same.

My improvement consists, p rineipally,of the two ruling-pens A and B, which are each provided at their upper ends with a square shank, G, which iits into a corresponding aperture in the cross-piece D, secured in any suitable manner in the handle E. The screws F and F secure the said shanks G of the respective pens A and B on the cross piece D.

The pen A is a double pen, and consists of a center part, G, which issplit into two prongs at its lower end, and of the plates H and I, which form, with the plate G, the double pen, and the lower ends of the said plates H and I and the respective prongs on the central plate, G, permit of making a double line when filled with ink without permitting the ink to run from one pen to the other. J, extends from the center plate, G, at each sidejand through the side plates, II and I, and nuts K and K screw on the said threaded bolt and against the side plates, H and I, and serve to regulate the thickness of the line to be made.

The pen B is an ordinary ruling-pen, and is provided with the inner straight plate, L, and the angular or curved plate M, which can be moved to or from the plate L in the usual manner by means of the nut N, screwed on the threaded bolt 0 and against the saichplate M. The pen B is provided with a joint at P, so as A threaded bolt, I

to permit of swinging the lower end of said pen B toward or from the double pen A, thereby increasing or decreasing the distance between the double line and the single line to be produced by the said pens A and B.

It will be seen that when the two pens A and B are filled with ink the operator is enabled to draw three lines at the same time. The two'lines drawn by the double pen A are close together, while the third line can be placed nearer to or farther from the said two lines by swinging the pen B on its joint P to or from the pen A. The thickness of each of the three lines can be regulated and varied by adjusting the respective nuts K K and N in the usual manner.

Either of the pens A and B can be used separately by either removing one of the pens from the cross-piece D or by turning both pens A and B in their sockets in the said crosspiece D at right angles to their normal po sition.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isj v 1. In a ruling-pen, the combination of a cross-piece and handle with two pens, of which one is a single pen and the other a double pen, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a ruling-pen, the combination of the cross-piece and handle with two pens held in the said crosspiece, of which one pen is single and provided with a joint and the other pen is double, substantially as shown and described.

3. A double pen consisting of acenter plate having prongs on its lower end, two plates, one on each side of the'said center plate, and bolts and nuts for adjusting the said side plates, substantially as shown and described.

4. In a ruling-pen, the double pen A, consisting of the center plate, G, having prongs on its lower end, the side plates, I and H, the bolt J, and the nuts K and K, and the single pen B, provided with the joint 1?, in combination with the cross-piece D, in which screw the screws F and E, which serve to hold the said pens on the said cross-piece D, and the handle E, substantially as shown and described.

CHRISTIAN A. F. ORLOB.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM E. Rowe, D. M. MoALLIsTER. 

